Blanket-fastening



W. B. PRITGHARD.

BLANKET FASTENING.

(No Model.)

Patented NQV. 9, 1886.

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\VIL-LABD B. PRITCI-IARD, OF WATERBUBY, CONNECTICUT.

BLANKET-FASTENING.

5L ECIZEICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 352,487, dated November 9, 1886.

' Application filed August 23, 1886. Serial No. 211,584. (No model.)

To aZZ whont it may concern.-

- Be it known that I, WILLARD B. PRITOH- ARD, of Waterbury, in the county of New Hashowing the method of securing the socket to' the blanket.

This invention relates to a fastening designed for securing the meeting edges of the blanket around the breast of a horse.

The blankets used upon horses are thrown over the back, and then the forward edges drawn together under the neck of the horse and over the breast as a protection for the breast. The usual appliances for securing the blanket at this point are a standing strap on the one part and a buckle fixed to the other part,the buckle and strap being simply stitched to the blanket. The strap is liable to be detached, and affordsbut a limited amount of adjustment. 1

The object of my invention is a simple device which may be attached to one side of the blanket and adapted to engage the blanket upon the other side without the interposition of straps, and whereby there is no limit as to adjustment.

The fastening device consists of a metal loop, preferably wire. This loop A is bent to form two legs, and in substantially V shape-that is, the opening between the legs gradually contracting from the ends to the. apex or bend. The two ends of the legs are each hung in a socket, B. By turning the legs respectively to the right and left through a corresponding hole in the sockets, the two ends of the legs being in the same axial line,these sockets form a hinge on which the loop may turn, as indi-.

5o cated in Fig. 3. The sockets B are constructed with a shank, a, of sufficient length to pass through the blanket and be riveted upon the other side. In applying these sockets to the blanket I first place a leather or other suitable flexible disk, I), upon each side of the blanket, and upon each of these disks I place a metal collar, (1, the disks and collars being pierced at the center corresponding to the shank a of the sockets, and so that, the collar and disk being placed upon each side,the shank of the socket is passed through the opening, the socket coming to a bearing on one side, then the end of the shank riveted down upon the reverse side, as seen in Fig. 3. Each socket is secured in this manner, and as seen in Fig. 3.

The 1oop,being hinged to the b1anket,can be turned toward or from the blanket, as occasion may require,in order to engage it with the gagement may be made at any point in the blanket The shape of the loop whereby such fastening may be produced is substantially the same as that used in what are called"stocking-supporters. The shape may be varied to some extent; but that illustrated is probably the best for practical uses, it only being essential that there shall be an opening so broad between the ends of the legs as to permit the portion of the blanket to be freely introduced, and a contraction toward the apex to such an extent as to cause the two sides to firmly grasp the part of the blanket so introduced and drawn toward the apex. By hinging the two legs to the blanket it is freely turned outward for the introduction of the portion of the blanket to be caught by the buckle, and then returned after being secured. A rigid connection between the two legs and the blanket would render the connection liable to tear or the loop liable to 2. The combination of the loop A, in subbreak in use, which liabilities are avoided by stant-ially V shape, the sockets B, the two ends hinging. of the legs hinged, respectively, in said sock- I claimets, said sockets constructed with a shank, a, I 5 5 1. The herein-described fastening for blankadaptedto pass through the blanket, as a ets, consisting of the loop in substantially V means for securing the buckle to the blanket, shape, the two ends of the legs hinged in socksubstantially as described. ets adapted to be secured to the blanket, the WILLARD B. PRITOHARD.

I Witnesses:

JAMES B. STUART, 'REUBEN G. SNAGG.

opening between the legs being broader than 10 at their ends and contracting toward the apex,

substantially as described. 

